New York cop who claimed fellow officers were sending her threatening texts arrested for allegedly sending them herself



A female police officer in upstate New York accused her fellow officers of barraging her with threatening text messages, including invitations to kill herself. It appears that 36-year-old Emily Hirshowitz of the Ossining Police Department might be her own worst enemy.

Hirshowitz was charged Wednesday with three felony counts of first-degree filing a false instrument and four misdemeanor counts of third-degree falsely reporting an incident, reported the Journal News.

"There's a lot of mystery and confusion surrounding the allegations in this case and we'll evaluate as we learn more," said Paul DerOhannesian, the Albany criminal defense lawyer representing Hirshowitz.

Hirshowitz, on the force since 2016 and a police officer with the New Rochelle department two years prior, claimed in a report to the Westchester District Attorney's Office in White Plains in May 2022 that she had been the target of harassing text messages from multiple unknown numbers.

According to court documents, she claimed "that a fellow police officer or multiple police officers at my department are involved."

In July and August, Hirshowitz provided investigators with screenshots of additional text messages she claimed to have received, which were laden with obscene and abusive language, some urging her to commit suicide.

The Journal News indicated that village and police officials reached out to the WDAO on numerous occasions, expressing concern about the "increasingly threatening content" ostensibly being directed Hirshowitz's way.

The mounting pressure apparently prompted investigators to double down on their probe even after Hirshowitz — whom the OPD previously indicated "doesn't particularly care for publicity" — told them on Aug. 12 that she no longer wanted to pursue the complaint.

Fear over the purported harassment campaign snowballed, such that on Aug. 23, OPD Chief Kevin Sylvester held a mandatory meeting for those on the force as well as the mayor and other village officials to discuss the text messages.

Greater attention brought greater scrutiny of the offending messages, which investigators began to suspect may have been sent by Hirshowitz in the first place.

The New York Post reported that by October, investigators obtained a search warrant for the officer's phone and Apple iCloud account. They soon determined that she was the likely culprit behind the messages and that several of the phone numbers linked to the damning messages were under her control.

Hirshowitz would thus have allegedly known that her complaints filed with the district attorney's office contained false information.

The 36-year-old has been suspended with pay and is due to appear at the White Plains City Court on July 12.

While alleged victim and aggressor may soon face justice together, the criminal complaint indicated Hirshowitz could have had an accomplice, noting that a different individual known to the WDAO possibly sent some of the texts captured on three of the screenshots Hirshowitz gave to police on July 1, 2022.

Although a second suspect has not been charged or named in the case, Michael Santangelo, a lawyer for Louis Rinaldi, the former Ossining police officer who resigned last year after facing unrelated disciplinary charges, noted his client was a focus of the investigation, reported the Journal News.

The Journal News indicated the WDAO, the OPD, and Mayor Rika Levin had yet to respond to requests for comment.

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Left-wing drama teacher at Georgia high school charged with sexual exploitation of children



A liberal, "bisexual" drama teacher at a Georgia high school was charged last week with two counts of sexual exploitation of children.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office announced that 32-year-old Michael Allan Dendy of Milledgeville was arrested Friday after being the subject of investigation for several weeks. Dendy reportedly continued working with kids as the department chair of Washington County High School's drama department right until his arrest.

The arrest

In addition to sexual exploitation of children, Dendy has reportedly been charged with three counts of computer pornography, three counts of improper contact by a teacher, and identity fraud using identifying information of a minor over whom he exercised custodial authority.

Officials indicated that additional charges and arrests are "likely."

The sheriff's office told WJBF that an investigation was opened in December following a complaint.

Dr. Rickey Edmond, Washington County School superintendent, said, "It's just been a terrible situation that we're having to deal with so our focus now is really working with our children and our parents and try to continue on."

A spokeswoman for the Washington County School District told TheBlaze that the district "is cooperating with the Sherriff’s Office and other local agencies."

When asked about Dendy's employment status, possible red flags in recruitment, how long the board of education knew about allegations against Dendy, and what security measures had been taken in the wake of the arrest, the spokeswoman stated, "The Washington County School District is prohibited from commenting on an active investigation or matters regarding personnel. The safety of our students is a top priority and will continue to be at the forefront of our decision-making processes."

A source familiar with the matter spoke to TheBlaze on condition of anonymity, claiming that as of now, there has been "no public comment from the system and no parent meeting of the theater kids. ... [The] superintendent keeps shoving things under the rug and trying to hide things from the public."

The board of education is tentatively set to meet on Feb. 2 at 501 Industrial Dr. in Sandersville, Georgia.

Red flags

According to his LinkedIn, Dendy has worked in kid-centric environments in multiple states, including at St. Charles High School in Waldorf, Maryland; Griffin High School in Griffin, Georgia; children's toy store Magic Box Toys in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Midsummer Musical Theatre Experience for campers ages 8 to 15 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and Starkville High school in Starkville, Mississippi.

The Dispatch reported that Dendy left the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District in 2016. When he returned later that year to watch his former students' theatrical performance, the district banned Dendy from all of its campuses.

At the time of his exile, Dendy told the Dispatch that he had been "told to resign so they could still give me a recommendation if I tried to get another teaching job," but in fact, he had been forced to leave the district in 2016.

Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District Board superintendent Dr. Tony McGee had not responded to TheBlaze's request for comment concerning Dendy's exit from his role at the school at the time of publication.

TheBlaze's source indicated that since becoming the drama teacher at Washington County High School in July 2020, Dendy has "had lots of talks with the kids about him being gay and very WOKE content like drag in schools, [BLM], etc.."

The source noted that Dendy is rumored to have been the administrator of a private Instagram account called WACO Confessions, as well as what may have been corresponding Google forms and a Discord channel.

Kids would allegedly share personal and often sexual information with the administrator of the account, who would post the anonymized details to the feed. Allegedly, the account evolved such that kids would fill out Google docs with their "confessions," then ultimately share nude images with the admin "in trade for a confession."

One of Dendy's apparent re-blogs from Tumblr appeared on his Twitter account, which read: "do you ever just look at little kids and think 'damn, you're gonna be one fine as f*** ..."

When the Post Millennial reported on a drag story event targeting children in November, Dendy tweeted, "Glad to see the event doing so well!!"

Another user wrote, "Y r people wanting sex offenders to be around children."

Dendy replied, "If I wanted sex offenders around children I’d tell them to go to their local church."

\u201c@TheMichaelDendy @TPostMillennial Or ur house...\u201d
— The Post Millennial (@The Post Millennial) 1669304912

Dendy's arrest came just days after new details emerged regarding the LGBT activist couple in Georgia arrested this past summer on suspicion of using their two adopted children to make child porn.

TheBlaze reported that in addition to allegedly raping and brutalizing two little boys, William Dale Zulock, 32, who worked as a supervisor at the county's Georgia Department of Driver Services, and Zachary Jacoby Zulock, 35, stand accused of pimping out their child captives to a pedophile ring in Georgia.

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Police say man recorded himself raping 7-year-old boy — but the suspect insisted that he is 'not attracted to children'



Police say that an Arkansas man recorded himself raping a 7-year-old boy and said he did it because he was "curious," according to a Thursday Law & Crime report.

According to the report, 18-year-old Noel Bonilla-Jiminez of Benton County was arrested on suspicion of two counts of rape involving a victim under the age of 14 as well as other related charges.

What are the details?

Bonilla-Jiminez was taken into custody on Saturday following a monthlong investigation into his purported online behavior.

According to the report, officers with the Rogers Police Department between the months of June and November received several tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding "suspicious material being uploaded by a social media user."

Among the disturbing tips was one particular video in which a male child believed to be between the ages of 5 and 6 years old was seen "masturbating [Bonilla-Jiminez] and giving him oral sex."

Authorities investigated the tip, which was sent by an anonymous woman who told authorities that she met the suspect at work and exchanged Snapchat information.

The woman said that she began following Bonilla-Jiminez and noticed concerning information on his Snapchat page including "videos that appeared to show the defendant receiving a sex act from 'a prepubescent male.'"

According to the report, authorities viewed the video and confirmed the adult in the video was Bonilla-Jiminez after speaking to the suspect's mother.

The unnamed woman confirmed that the suspect was her son and that the video appeared to have been filmed in the family bathroom.

Authorities quickly arrested the suspect, who initially denied knowing the child in the video.

He eventually was said to have confessed to the rape and reportedly admitted that he had sexual encounters with the child approximately three times.

"Noel told me that he had John Doe-8 perform oral sex on him because he (Noel) was curious," an arrest affidavit stated. "Noel stated he was not attracted to children and he would not offend on another child."

Bonilla-Jiminez stated that the videos were several years old and that he hadn't had any contact with the victim for approximately four to five years.

The affidavit added, "John Doe-8 was later interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center and he did not disclose any sexual abuse. When the interviewer asked about seeing a video with him in it, John Doe-8 began to cry and said he wanted to leave the room.”

Following the interview, John Doe-8's mother confirmed that it was her son — who is just 8 years old — in the video and that the incident took place when the child was seven. Police believe the suspect was 17 years old when the boy was raped, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported on Wednesday.

Bonilla-Jiminez also stands accused of using a computer to exploit a child as well as two counts of possessing, distributing, and viewing child pornography.

Bonilla-Jimenez remains incarcerated at the Benton County Detention Center at this time on a $250,000 bond.

He is set to appear in court on March 17.